Fwd: Advent Spiral, Friday Dec 7

Kindergarten & Nursery
Advent Spiral Garden
in Huckleberry Hall
December 7th, 2012

At many Waldorf Kindergartens throughout the world, the season of Advent is marked by the ceremony of the Advent Spiral Garden, an experience of moving from darkness into the light.  The garden is a beautiful spiral pathway of evergreen boughs, interspersed with pine cones, crystals, seashells, and shining stars leading to a candle in the center.  In the darkness of the evening, held by reverent music or voice, each child in turn carries an unlit candle held by a rosy apple and walks the spiral path to the center, lights his own small candle from the center candle and embarks on the journey back outward, placing the apple and candle in the spiral boughs alongside the pathway.  Slowly, with each child's journey, the Light glows and grows.  It is an archetypal experience of birth and incarnation which honors the Journey of the (every)Child of Light.

Please bring your warmly dressed child to their respective classrooms at the time designated below for your family. Parents can then make their way to Huckleberry Hall and wait until the children are led down by their teacher. It will be important to be on time, not late, and not too early.  We will be holding the children in a quiet space until all have arrived.  Please let Vanessa, William or Dyanne know if you will not be coming so that we can know whether to wait for you.  This is a Festival which is held in quiet reverence.   To support the children in such an experience, we will be building up to this festival with the children during our mornings at school.  The children will also be supported by your own quiet mood of reverence during the week and during the festival itself. 

 We look forward to sharing this experience with you.

Vanessa, William and Dyanne


4:30                                                              5:00                                                     6:00
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Butterfly Nursery                                                       Golden Forest                                                  Sunflower
(please meet in Huckleberry Hall with your nursery child)               (Please drop your kindergarten child off in their room with their teacher,
                                                                                    then take your seat in Huckleberry Hall)